Posted on 10/18/2007 2:59:41 PM PDT by NFOShekky
Class act - Updated with photos!
October 16th, 2007 · 12 Comments Got this from several sources, and it’s a good follow-up to yesterday’s post on our outgoing Chairman:
I wanted to share with you what we saw in Washington DC last week. After the mid-term brief we toured the Mall and made the usual stops at the WWII Memorial, the Wall, Lincoln Memorial, etc. At the Vietnam Wall we saw something unbelievable. We noticed three small index cards at the base of the Wall. I knelt down for a closer look and noticed that a 4-star general’s rank was pinned to each card. The cards were personally addressed and said:
“These are Yours- not mine! With Love and Respect, Your Platoon Leader, Pete Pace 1 Oct”
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs had laid down his rank for his boys who died in Nam just the day before! I later found out that 1 Oct was also the same day he stepped down as chairman.
Class act is right. You won’t see this man crying in his beer.
ping...bring your kleenix
I’m speechless. What an amazing act of character. General Pace had nothing to gain from this selfless act of humility and loyalty to his fallen comrades. My God, what an honor to live in the same time as such a man!
Now if this were some aids wall and a famous homo would have left a message like this, they would be all over the story...
Sign of the times... the Lord is getting ready!
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